Mcllorycat

Rosalind, Edison, and Nora Shea always thought their parents were a match made in heaven. After their mother was killed, their famous scientist father couldn't handle living without her and built a time machine to go back and save her life. That was where everything went wrong. 

The kids find themselves stuck in the past with a broken time machine and no way to fix it. Their only hope is their much-younger father...who immediately gets off on the wrong foot with their mother. 

With saving their mother and returning home hanging in the balance, they begin to worry that they won't even be born. How did a spunky aspiring novelist and a misanthropic genius from a rich family ever end up together in the first place? Can the kids get two such different people to fall in love all over again or have they destroyed their timeline for good? Read on to find out!

*cover by polkadottedscrunchie*

Time Tangled

Izzy knew plenty of name meanings because of all of her character naming research over the years and remembered this one. It was a shortened form of two different names so it could mean either "honor" or "light." Those were both pretty solid.

"What do you think about Nora for a girl?" she asked.

Julian's eyes widened fractionally for a second before he smiled. "Nora is a nice name. Less old-fashioned than most on this list too."

"That's what I was thinking. I guess it's settled then. This baby will either be named Edison or Nora."

When they found out the gender a couple of months later and realized it was a boy, that locked in their name choice. Rozzy was apprehensive about having a brother since she thought the boys at school were even more annoying than the girls but it ultimately didn't end up being a problem.

The day Edison—whose name they shortened to Eddie—was born, she peered at him curiously as her mother held him. "This is our baby?"

They Deserved Clean Slates